Exercise and hunger

karelyvazquez3
karelyvazquez3 Posts: 25 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
i just started diet & exercise last week, i have been having 30 min work outs while i build up to longer workouts because im out of shape. Today i worked out for 45 mins and i feel hungrier hours after my workout. Is this normal? I am still eating with in my calorie range.

Oh and also are you supposed to eat back your calories? For example
3x 300 calorie meals + snacks through out the day - 300 calories burned with exercise = 600 calories left. Do you eat back your calories you burned with exercise

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  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    What is your current height/weight and your calorie goal?

    If you are eating, say, 1200 calories, I would eat at least half of those calories back. If you eat 1200 calories a day, and you burn 300 calories through exercise, that puts you at a net of 900 calories a day, which is not healthy or sustainable.
  • karelyvazquez3
    karelyvazquez3 Posts: 25 Member
    edited March 2015
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    What is your current height/weight and your calorie goal?

    If you are eating, say, 1200 calories, I would eat at least half of those calories back. If you eat 1200 calories a day, and you burn 300 calories through exercise, that puts you at a net of 900 calories a day, which is not healthy or sustainable.
    My current height & weight is 5"3 and 202
    Oh okay i was just making sure!

  • FitOldMomma
    FitOldMomma Posts: 790 Member
    I will eat back some of them if I'm really hungry. The exercise calories sometimes seem exaggerated to me so I rarely will use them all.

    You're on a pretty low daily number, so if you're hungry you should eat them back.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    When you burn more calories, you should eat more.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    karelyvazquez3 wrote: »
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    What is your current height/weight and your calorie goal?

    If you are eating, say, 1200 calories, I would eat at least half of those calories back. If you eat 1200 calories a day, and you burn 300 calories through exercise, that puts you at a net of 900 calories a day, which is not healthy or sustainable.
    My current height & weight is 5"3 and 202
    Oh okay i was just making sure!

    Definitely eat those calories back. I threw your stats into the Scooby's workshop calorie calculator (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and a sedentary person with your stats can lose weight eating 1600 calories a day, and exercise would just add to that.

    You're likely hungry because you're not eating enough to fuel your workouts.

    Be sure and accurately weigh/measure your foods so that you're not eating more than you think, though!

    Good luck :smile:
  • karelyvazquez3
    karelyvazquez3 Posts: 25 Member
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    karelyvazquez3 wrote: »
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
    What is your current height/weight and your calorie goal?

    If you are eating, say, 1200 calories, I would eat at least half of those calories back. If you eat 1200 calories a day, and you burn 300 calories through exercise, that puts you at a net of 900 calories a day, which is not healthy or sustainable.
    My current height & weight is 5"3 and 202
    Oh okay i was just making sure!

    Definitely eat those calories back. I threw your stats into the Scooby's workshop calorie calculator (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and a sedentary person with your stats can lose weight eating 1600 calories a day, and exercise would just add to that.

    You're likely hungry because you're not eating enough to fuel your workouts.

    Be sure and accurately weigh/measure your foods so that you're not eating more than you think, though!

    Good luck :smile:

    Thanks i was just wondering! Lol i dont eat that little bit that was just an example! Im eating around 1500-1700 a day :)

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